Editor Comparison

There is no universally best editor. Qalma is designed for teams that want an Angular-native, headless API while retaining ProseMirror's document model.

Option	Strong fit	Main trade-off
Qalma	Angular 21/22, signals, consumer-owned UI, typed plugin contracts	Pre-1.0 ecosystem and smaller community
Raw ProseMirror	Maximum engine control and custom document behavior	You design the Angular integration and public API yourself
Tiptap	Large extension ecosystem and cross-framework familiarity	More abstraction and bundle overhead; Angular is not the core surface
ngx-editor	Established Angular editor with a conventional ready surface	Less emphasis on headless composition and Qalma-style plugin contracts
Quill	Straightforward conventional rich text with a lighter monolithic engine	A different document model with less ProseMirror-style schema control

Choose Qalma when the toolbar, menus, uploads, and design system must remain application code, and when a typed Angular controller matters more than a large ready-made extension marketplace. Do not choose it yet if you require a mature third-party ecosystem, a guaranteed stable 1.0 API, or turnkey collaboration.

For bytes, use the reproducible Bundle Size benchmark. Feature parity is approximate and the page publishes caveats alongside the numbers. The benchmark now measures the optional @qalma/kit separately so the editor engine and UI layer are not conflated.